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Advanced courses grade scale

tabethatotty — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:40:54 GMT

Our district uses a "Scale Up" grade scale for our advanced courses. However, I cannot find a place to input that "scale up" grade in the current grade scale format options. For example, the numerical grade the student receives is a 98, but with the "bump" or "scale up" the grade that should be calculated for the class ranking is 107.8. I need this 107.8 to show up in the Percent field in the students semester stored grade so that it calculates correctly in the cumulative weighted GPA.

See example from stored grades.

In order to get our grades currently to process correctly, I have to manually go in and adjust the GPA points area and the Percent area. I figured out how to fix the GPA points area, but not how to fix the percent field area so that it will automatically apply the "bump" to the students grade. Any help would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance.

Re: Advanced courses grade scale

JeffG9 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:46:12 GMT

Since you can adjust the GPA Points via Grade Scale, wouldn't it be easier to adjust the GPA Calculation to use GPA Points instead of Percent?

Re: Advanced courses grade scale

tabethatotty — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:55:01 GMT

That is how we currently have it set up. However the problem then is that the College GPA cumulative AAR does not calculate correctly because it is fed by the gpa field. When I adjusted the grade points to the normal 4pt scale (in the grade scale), the College GPA cumulative AAR calculation then was correct on the cumulative info tab. However, the percent field has to still be manually adjusted to the "bump" amount so that the cumulative weighted GPA AAR calculates correctly for class ranking.

Re: Advanced courses grade scale

JeffG9 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:10:44 GMT

The Percent on a stored grade comes from that value in the PGFinalGrades table when that reporting term is stored. PT Pro uses the Percent field for calculations (such as the calc for the final grade for the course), so I do not believe it can be adjusted via grade scale.

If you have access to this forum, there is a crazy amount of PS Experience/Knowledge there:

https://groups.io/g/PSUG/topics